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Mar 12 • 36 tweets • 13 min read
🧵THREAD From Westminster Hall debate 12.3.2024
@JimShannonMP 1) The WASPI women are the generation of women born in the 1950s who have been adversely affected by the changes to the state pension age in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
#50sWomen
@JimShannonMP 2) They argue that they were not given adequate notice of transitional arrangements to adjust to the increase in their state pension age from 60 to 65 or 66, depending on their date of birth. That is the crux of this debate.
#50sWomen
Sep 26, 2023 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
📢CALLING ALL #50sWomen and supporters!
🗣️You really need to read this and watch the video!
Dr Jocelynne Scutt on why mediation is the only legal way forward to solve the 13 year old pensions dispute for 1950s women September 24, 2023 by @davidhencke
⬇️ davidhencke.com/2023/09/24/dr-…
@DrDavinaLloyd1 interviews Dr Jocelynne Scutt, author of the ground-breaking Judge’s report on the plight of 1950s women who faced a six year delay in getting their pensions @davidhencke
@paullewismoney "Six years state pension in present day values is worth around £60,000. And these women want to get their lost money back. Or at least some of it"
1) WHY shouldn't #50sWomen receive their Earned #StatePension when most worked from 15-16?
inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…
@paullewismoney "Their main claim is about communication – were these women warned of the changes? And it’s clear they weren’t"
2) "It's clear they weren't" (informed)
So WHY would you not agree that #50sWomen were CHEATED out of their #StatePension?
👇👇👇 davidhencke.com/2022/06/11/lor…2) "An influential all party report by peers and MPs published last week (see my report in Byline Times) found nine recent judgements by the Supreme Court were favouring the government over the individual"
👇👇👇👇 davidhencke.com/2022/01/21/mps…2) "A truly damning report by MPs on the Commons Public Accounts Committee today castigates the Department for Work and Pensions for running an “unfit for purpose” system to pay pensions to more than 12 million people" @davidhencke
👇👇👇 wbg.org.uk/analysis/autum…2. Public expenditure on State Pensions in the UK is among the lowest in the OECD; this reflects the fact that the main state pension for current pensioners is nearly £40 per week less than the government’s own poverty threshold (the means-tested minimum guarantee Pension Credit)
1🗣️"As we have heard, since 2010 at least an extra 400,000 pensioners have been pushed into poverty, and a generation of women born in the 1950s were betrayed" @SarahOwen_
Hansard 08.12.2020👇 hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-1…
2🗣️" That left millions of women with no time to make alternative plans, with sometimes devastating personal consequences" @SarahOwen_
